“Art of the Deal” coauthor Tony Schwartz goes deep on the spiritual holes of modern life — and ways to transcend the current societal pressure to constantly focus on yourself, brand yourself and seek fame, power and fortune at the expense of others, a process that he argues ultimately leaves people feeling inadequate and empty. In this interview on the roof of NBC's iconic 30 Rockefeller building, a special Thanksgiving segment on "The Beat with Ari Melber," Schwartz explores how people try to fill their “inner deficit,” a theme he has often discussed as applying to his prior writing collaborator Donald Trump, and how to pursue a more spiritual focus. Aired on 11/27/19.
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He did an interview explaining that he was fairly desperate when he took the job to write Art of the (dishonest) Deal and he has regretted it ever since, because he says it was all fake so he feels responsible for the rise of Trump. It’s why he is fighting so hard to get the truth about trump out to the world. It’s his penance.

@fried spaghetti Indeed! The Patent for “A tooth powder in the form of paste and enclosed in a collapsible enclosure” was requested in 1886, by the Honorable Dr. Sheffield. However, 60 years prior, the brother of the esteemed writer and poet Bellford Williams, Sandal Rotham Williams invented a “lead” tube one could extrude tooth powder/paste. wha-la! A Tooth paste tube.

” I like this convo, but wish it wasn’t edited. ”
I understand making a shorter version, but it would indeed be good to have the full version available. On the other and, it may be that not much was left out, as Ari Melber seems to appreciate what Tony Schwartz has to say.

Checking around MSNBC website, they do have transcripts, but at the moment not one more recent than at this url: http://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/msnbc-live-with-ari-melber/2019-11-25 I suggest checking out that site for full transcripts for Nov 27 (date of above video) and maybe you’ll find something interesting 🙂 They do provide transcripts (plus timeline notes) of Rachel’s shows.

“Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking, it is not well for the children that they should be so burdened. Neither is it well for the state. Beyond providing for the wife and daughters moderate sources of income, and very moderate allowances indeed, if any, for the sons, men may well hesitate, for it is no longer questionable that great sums bequeathed oftener work more for the injury than for the good of the recipients. Wise men will soon conclude that, for the best interests of the members of their families and of the state, such bequests are an improper use of their means.”
– Andrew Carnegie, Gospel of Wealth